The 2008 Melbourne TRAANAA Awards (The Trannys)
2008 MELBOURNE TRANNY AWARDS: NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
Welcome to the Melbourne Trans Revolutionary Achievement and Non-Achievement (TRAANAA) Awards. We call them the Tranny Awards for short. The Tranny Awards are about celebrating the joys and difficulties of trans/queer existence with a dash of glamour, an ounce of piss-taking, and the serious need to out the crappy transphobic institutions that make our lives hell. We challenge the conservatism of the pink champagne circuit, where the same ‘community leaders’ parade around, year after dull year. We challenge the skewed representations of the queer media, for whom the latest Anthony Callea single is more important than trans and queer people living with poverty, discrimination and violence. We challenge the fallacy that there is a GLBTQI community in which we are all equal.
By awarding prizes for transphobia, tokenism, unprofessional psychiatry, lazy drag performances and bureaucratic nightmares, we draw attention to the everyday discrimination many people in the ‘GLBTIQ’ community experience because of their gender presentation. By awarding prizes for supportive healthcare, gender-neutral bathrooms, gender-messing events and improvements in the community’s treatment of transpeople, we honour the random kindnesses of strangers and the moving tide of knowledge about trans and gender-variant people, and the growing acceptance that for most of us humans, gender is never stable.
CLICK HERE TO MAKE A NOMINATION FOR THE 2008 TRANNY AWARDS
Nominations close November 25; voting opens the same day.
The 2008 Tranny Awards will be held on Saturday 13th December 2008, at Dante’s in Fitzroy. Look out on this site for details about how to vote closer to the date.
